Luzak, Agnes
Karrasch, Stefan
Wacker, Margarethe
Thorand, Barbara
Nowak, Dennis
Peters, Annette
Schulz, Holger
Article History
Accepted: 12 December 2017
First Online: 6 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The KORA F4L and KORA Age studies were approved by the responsible ethics committee of the Bavarian Medical Association. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.